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Can we crowdfund buying data on congress, the Epstein class and their chdren, and the Trump crime syndicate so that it can be made freely publicly available?
Don't put Sim cards in your phones, folks.
Block ads. Only use apps in froid and official Foss repos
how tf do you expect me to be able to use my phone without a sim?
Wifi
Use McDonald's wifi to go into a Minecraft world and build text messeges with world blocks.
There's also Briar and other mesh network stuff.
Citizens: You can't spy on me without a legal reason!
Govt: I know, but they can.
(big tech giants appear with decades of data)
It is one of the big lies of capitalist countries like the U.S.
"Don't worry [CITIZEN ID] you have rights! The constitution says you do"
But then everyone is coerced to working for companies that are closer to miniature dictatorship kingdoms, with some of them being more powerful than "legitimate" governments.
What always freaks me out is people considering their government worse than the likes of Meta, Palantir, Google, Microsoft... At least you can vote (hopefully) for a different government. The problem is when the companies are able to buy governments, like USA is.
You can vote for the party that supports Meta/Palantir/Google/Microsoft or you can vote for the other party that supports Meta/Palantir/Google/Microsoft
🌈 But with rainbows 🌈
Is Apple excluded?
we could it would just take an unprecidented change in voter sympathies.
better just do nothing because that works way better
Gotta vote to keep a clear conscience for what comes next
Go away with your doomer memes.
You know what else won't work, performative cynicism without any actual contribution.
People are stuck in web 1.0 and web 2.0 thought patterns when it comes to privacy.
You're not kidding, that's for sure.
My wife watched a video about ICE surveillance last night and she couldn't believe they are building databases or protestors or holding airport photos of immigrants for 75 years. Normies do not understand just how bad it is, they think pointing out all this stuff is crazy conspiracy theory.
100% of the data is out there for every single action we do now. Everything we say (smartphones, 'smart' devices), Where we are driving, when we are driving, when we are out and about, who we are with, who we exchange messages with, how much money we make, what we spend it on, everything we comment on the internet, all of our browser history, every message we exchange on nearly all platforms... everything is for sale. 1984 is technically feasible, today. We're so close it's terrifying.
I started talking to a friend about this and he called me a tin foil hat wearing conspiracist and said even if it's true him and his company is making money off of it so he doesn't care.
holding airport photos of immigrants for 75 year
that one is new to me (i have had The Shit to sort through and missed a couple things) but i absolutely do not doubt it.
i used to help a support group and one of my favorite dudes was an absolute conspiracy geek. he loved them a little too much. i mean i love a bigfoot story as much as the next dude, and the one after them and then the next too as the trio curls up with bigfoot in a nice warm consensual snuggle pit with coffee and silly hats what were we talking about? right it's kind of weird having the guy who lost it over Jade Helm seem... right? about most things. i mean we were all a little off our nut (and i still am) but he needed the most help and validation. wish he were still here so i could get his thoughts.
Yeah no shit this news is like over 6 years old, they have been doing this for some time.
Some of it is, I'm sure. But the reason I posted it was because it had a lot of detailed information which I hadn't seen before. It was literally my first post on Lemmy today, other than comments. I hope I didn't make a faux pas.
Sorry, you were right to post it, I am just saying this is an ongoing thing we have those of us who followed the news have known about for quite some time. Just this last summer or so there was An article In This Very intercept detailing how the feds were streamlining the buying of data broker info and distributing it to agencies, previously agencies bought it individually and many bought the same tranches of information separately.
The whole thing is fucked. It's a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment we all know it but the goddamned federal courts are fucking traitors and deserve, something something.
Well, the good news for me personally is that since a year, I've been getting off of the American tech stack, hosting in Europe, with .eu domains, using aliases for emails on my own email server, locking down my stuff, and erasing what there is from iCloud, Google, etc... Completely. I wrote a long basic how-to a month ago to help others, and have been meaning to update it more. I've also been migrating my startup company's setup to do the same. It's all done now and I couldn't be happier with the results. I've also been encouraging others online and friends and family to do the same. I even have a few of them using my Nextcloud server nearly full time now.
So I am trying to help. 😃
The Fourth Amendment has been dead since the PATRIOT Act.
the judiciary is comprised of useful idiots that care more about the law than humanity.
nah, looks like real paws to me
Looking at CCPA deletion requests https://privacy.ca.gov/tips/submit-a-privacy-request/
The way it’s worded on that page, Businesses must comply with requests within 45 days. But if the government accesses the data as a sub processor, must they comply?
My guess would unfortunately be no.